Tiny fossil arm bone sheds light on evolution of ancient Indonesian ‘hobbits’
- Written by Adam Brumm, Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
The arm bone fragment excavated in 2013 at the site Mata Menge.Y. KaifuWe have discovered rare and very old human fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone. Our finds are reported in a new paper out today in Nature Communications.
Dated to around 700,000 years old, these findings throw new light...





